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Sorry I forgot but can mods prefix (2025) to the title? Thanks!

This didn't get traction but this is big news, mostly for reasons not mentioned in this article:

1. It's a RISC-V chip, which means freedom from licensing fees. 2. It is built on 28nm nodes, which is a far cry from the 180nm fabrication SCL was capable of till very recently.

Now, 28nm is not the state of the art, but it is not very far either. I'm excited about getting to sub-10nm nodes in not too distant future, which may make this viable for daily desktop and mobile experience. Although I'm hoping to see some more progress on the software-side with RISC-V in that period.

Thanks for taking a look! You are correct that we are not competing with the cheapest offerings available there are two key things that are different with us compared to some low-cost providers (like Hetzner):

1. Our prices are in CAD and we bill in CAD, not USD. For Canadian residents this saves on exchange-rate uncertainty. Although sometimes people miss the C$ part and compare it with USD pricing - looking to make this more visible.

2. We don't have limits on transfers, but bandwidth. Hetzner, for example gives you limited amount of transfer for your money. They probably want to stop abuse but it limits legitimate users as well, even though it costs them no more money to transfer the extra bits.

(I use and like Hetzner, not trying to throw shade on them, just using as an example).

> Are there any legal or other reasons I, a resident of Canada, should host my services in Canada rather than in Europe or US?

Certain industries in Canada are regulated and need to be hosted locally. However, we are not trying to appeal to that. Instead, we want to focus on physically-local hosting because we believe that the world needs more small-scale ISPs, not centralization into big hyper-scalers. The collateral benefits are incidental: like being able to sue in Canada, and being subject to Canadian digital privacy laws (e.g. the DPA).

Oh very cool! Is the lamp being made in Canada?

It didn't really come out of academia in that way. It was an innovation borne out of necessity during Covid. I don't think I've seen anybody using a box design for it. If you have a source, I'll be happy to be corrected.

Regardless technology is often named after people who made it popular, especially when original inventors are unknown or too diffuse.

Of course, but I know people who live in the UK who are not white. Some have lived there all their lives, even. Perhaps this drivel doesn't upset them but I can imagine how it might.

Unfortunately DHH is not going to be focused on the UK only. He'll lend his voice to the next rightwing ragebait without consideration of people who he works with on the daily. He had some very strong but entirely misinformed opinions about my hometown a few years ago and it was extremely annoying to read that from an ostensibly intelligent person while being in the middle of everything.

If he was some random guy, it wouldn't be such an issue but given he's the leader of a big open source project, everything he says gets a lot of publicity and frankly causes a lot of distraction for people just trying to do work on or with Rails.

I think framework made a misstep with this spornsorship deal. I still think they should be supported in their mission and you don't have to regret your purchase.

That article spends a lot of words in trying to paint DHH's "native Brits" in a positive light but never mentions the following sentence from the article:

> A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if it has nothing to do with what you look like?

Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-white British population in London and uses the non-white number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-born vs local-born numbers too but he did not.

I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not sure.

It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH. That's not being nice, that's being oblivious.

Fair. Just wanted to provide my stroke and warn people about a low quality, overhyped project. Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist or people can't use it.

No need for a boatload of shell scripts that's omarchy. Just install any distro and get going.

This is an interesting article but unfortunately there's some brigading of this thread by new accounts that's leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm almost more interested in how a 20-something with no apparent prior pedigree lands a Simon and Schuster debut novel contract!